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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1905
Page
7
Judge Thornell today set aside the $6,000 verdict against Rock Island Railway in Anderson vs. Rock Island. Harry Anderson, administrator of Jack Anderson’s estate, was killed when a train struck a buggy east of Atlantic, Louisiana. The judge ruled contributory negligence due to failure to watch for the oncoming train.
Sioux City Iowa December 13 Mayor W G Sears asks Dean Wheeler of Sioux City College of Medicine to investigate a dog scare that has alarmed residents for days and led to several canine deaths. Mrs L Jay accuses medical students of experiments on her dog after it bit a child and other dogs.
Newton Iowa December 13 grand jury reports indictment against Prof O P Farmer for forging G E Rinehart’s name to a contract for one year as shorthand and typewriting instructor at Newton Normal college. Rinehart says he never signed it and Farmer bonds 3000 with his father and Abraham Adams as security.
Former Drake University president William Bayard Craig, now pastor at Central Christian Church in Denver, has begun Christian Science study and hosts weekly experiment meetings. He believes healing follows faith inspired prayer and notes his prior Drake tenure was successful.
The article describes Dr. Craig advocating prayer and divine healing within the Christian church. It cites Mrs. Craig praising Divine Science founder Mary Baker Eddy, noting a shift toward spiritual healing and prayer meetings. It recounts cases of healing including Mrs. Philipp Feldhauser and E. M. Ashley, highlighting faith and study of healing.
Marshalltown Iowa December 13 Henry C Long a member of the soldiers home disappeared from the home hospital Monday afternoon wearing only a light gray hospital suit and carpet slippers. Search parties combed the area all day and found him near Luray nine miles south on the Milwaukee line. His slippers were worn out and he appeared exhausted but uninjured and clearly mentally unbalanced.
Mason City Iowa reports William Burmaster a 50 year old Mil waukee railroad trackman was struck by a Town Central train at 6 pm and knocked from a bridge. He fell twenty feet suffering mangled arm and internal injuries that may prove fatal. He supports a large family.
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